Christopher Moore's History News

Last Saturday morning, waking up to news that the Canadian government had walked away from the trade negotiations in Washington, D.C. I felt...

The Lawyers Guns and Money blog -- a bunch of historians, but in US election years the blog is all local politics all the time, as now  -- ...

Toronto I don't know if you are following the squabble between Toronto and Ontario about bike lanes. But if you are, I want to propose t...

I had never known of Sumit Sarkar before I came across this obituary appreciation , but a great historian of India is surely a great world h...

Canada's History magazine, six issues a year since beyond living memory, recently switched to a quarterly format.  I might have hoped i...

With the retreat of the United States into authoritarianism, there seems to be an urge for Canadians to declare that, gee, we could have tha...

I was browsing in Unparliamentary: Tales from Canada's Colourful Parliamentary Past , a recent book by scholar of parliament Charlie Fel...

One of my neighbours occasionally gifts me a batch of his old Times Literary Supplement s (and other publications, too  -- he's a very l...

Mark Bourrie  has a lively story in The Walrus about Elon Musk's grandfather Joshua Haldeman, who used to be a chiropractor in Saskatche...

Tadej -- fifth time in a row.  Maybe the greatest? Okay the Tour de France ended on Sunday.  Tadej Pogacar's dominance was such that muc...

Patrick Lacroix, who is unfailingly interesting on Bluesky and on his blog Query the Past , has thoughts on my post of June 23 about the new...

I believe I have some sort of entitlement-by-ancestry to Irish citizenship (and the European Union rights that would come with it).And Brita...

I recently caught the episode of Witness to Yesterday (Canada's busiest history-book podcast, I'd say) in which Donald Wright conve...